Have a PerGear Laserstorm L5 Pro, and trying to use a Atomstack R3 Rotary Roller. I have connected the roller and laser and the laser homes, x axes as it should and roller turns and then stops.
After going thru set up process in Lightburn the test button has no effect, then if i go to Move screen, none of the move buttons work either, for either x or y. If i physically move the x axes, then hit home button , the x again moves to home and roller moves.
Are there other settings in Lightburn that I need to adjust or change?
Unless you have a dedicated axis controller for the rotary, you’ll have to turn off homing.
Homing, for the most part, relies on Limit switches to complete the homing operation.
If you unplug a motor from the Y-axis, the engrave head will never reach the Y axis switch at the origin when homing.
Information from the control board in your engraver will be sent to the Console window in LightBurn. You may find messages there about homing fail or a warning about motion locked.
You can Copy and Paste information from the Console window in LightBurn into a reply here. Lots of folks here are ready to help discover what’s going on.
The following is a screen shot of the message on the console, Please any help would help, or is the machine not set up to use a roller ?
Waiting for connection…
Waiting for connection…
ok
[VER:1.1.2021051202:]
[OPT:PHSW]
[MSG:Using machine:LKS TTS]
[MSG:Mode=AP:SSDI=MKS_DLC:IP=192.168.4.1:MAC=8C-4B-14-AB-BA-45]
ok
Homing
ALARM:9
Homing fail. Could not find limit switch within search distance. Defined as 1.5 * max_travel on search and 5 * pulloff on locate phases.
ok
Grbl 1.1 [‘$’ for help]
[MSG:‘$H’|‘$X’ to unlock]
[MSG:Caution: Unlocked]
ok
It looks like you’re seeing a homing fail error because your Y axis is disconnected - your machine can’t home on that axis with the stepper motor disconnected. Try turning off ‘Auto-home on startup’ in the Device Settings window (‘Edit’ > ‘Device Settings’).
Use your Rotary in ‘Current Position’ mode, and position your laser over your rotary/object either by jogging it before swapping out the Y axis for the rotary, or move it by hand to the correct position with your laser off.
You may also want to enter $20=0 in the Console window to disable ‘Soft Limits’, in case the size of your graphic leads to your rotary being commanded to move more than the Y Max Travel value in your laser’s firmware. Be sure to enter $20=1 before going back to flat engraving, to re-enable Soft Limits.
Here are some additional instructions on rotary use:
Thank-you so much, seem to be on the right path to getting this working now
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